Scrollbars do not take up space on Linux and Windows anymore by default. Waterfox supports the Snap Layout and new scrollbar styles features of Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system. Noise suppression and auto-gain have improved significantly as well in the release. Waterfox will crash less often due to low-memory on the system, thanks to improvements integrated in to the Firefox code by Mozilla. For now, support is limited to YouTube on macOS 11 and newer with HGR compatible screens. Share options are now found under the file menu in the browser, and HDR video is also supported on Macs. On Mac devices, support for images containing ICC v4 profiles is now enabled.

The browser's built-in PDF viewer supports form filling in the new version, and Picture-in-Picture mode supports video captions and subtitles now for select sites. Waterfox supports the AVIF format and hardware accelerated AV1 video decoding, the latter only on certain Windows systems with supported graphics processing units. Next to that, Waterfox's sandbox on Linux prevents access to the X Window System on Linux for web content.Īdditionally, 'less restricted referrer policies' are now ignored to prevent privacy leaks, and the browser now supports the automatic updating 'to HTTPS using HTTPS RR as Alt-Svc headers'.

Developers have improved web compatibilities as well. Waterfox G5.0 includes improved referrer tracking protection in Strict tracking protection mode and in private browsing mode. The release notes group most platform changes in the three groups security, media and operating systems. Waterfox G5.0 is based on Firefox ESR 102, which means that it supports the features of that release next to Waterfox-specific features. Most changes are made to the underlying platform. The official release notes list all major changes of the new release. Waterfox users may check the installed version by selecting Menu > Help > About Waterfox in the menu. Waterfox users who want to upgrade right away may download the latest version from the official project website to install it over the existing copy of the browser. The developer notes that the new version will roll out via automatic updates starting next week.

Instaling Waterfox Current G5.1.9